NAME

sigreturn - return from signal handler and cleanup stack frame

SYNOPSIS

intsigreturn(unsignedlong__unused);

DESCRIPTION

When the Linux kernel creates the stack frame for a signal handler, a
call to sigreturn() is inserted into the stack frame so that upon
return from the signal handler, sigreturn() will be called.
This sigreturn() call undoes everything that was done--changing the
process's signal mask, switching stacks (see sigaltstack(2))--in order
to invoke the signal handler: it restores the process's signal mask,
switches stacks, and restores the process's context (registers,
processor flags), so that the process directly resumes execution at the
point where it was interrupted by the signal.